Roxanne Roxanne star Chanté Adams is gearing up to star as co-lead in Denzel Washington’s Journal for Jordan, alongside Creed star Michael B. Jordan.
Denzel Washington is director, Virgil Wiliams wrote the script based on Dana Canedy’s New York Times best-selling memoir, published in 2008 while Sony is the studio.
Based on a true events, the story centers on “Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Canedy’s love affair with First Sergeant Charles Monroe King. King kept a journal full of poignant life lessons for their newborn son, Jordan, while deployed overseas. He was killed in Iraq in 2006 when Jordan was just seven months old, but his spirit lives on in his messages of love to Dana and Jordan.”
Todd Black, along with his Escape Artists partners Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch, will produce along with Washington and Jordan, who will produce through his Outlier Society banner. BRON Studios’ Aaron L. Gilbert also join as producers. Jason Cloth is executive producing via Creative Wealth Media.
The Photograph star Adams stars as Cenedy.